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How to Host a Tweetup

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Simply put, a Tweetup is a set time and day when a group of people on Twitter are online to discuss a particular topic. One main group moderates the Tweetup by posting rules, promotional tweets and questions during the event, while participants tweet responses and follow other participants. Sometimes a core group of participants will meet to execute the Tweetup in person.

Here are some tips we’ve picked up on how to make your own Tweetup successful.

Prepare in advance for the Tweetup:

Set a date and time

Choose a topic: something that you will focus your questions and conversation around

Choose a hashtag: pick one that isn’t commonly used already

Select questions to ask: prepare 4-5 that relate to your topic

Write a blog post: offer a landing page with information about how someone can attend

Prepare canned Tweets and a timeline: schedule your Tweets in CoTweet based on a timeline of how you want the event to go

Reach out to people to see if they will attend:

Reach out to attendees: send invites to people you know or people who are involved in the topic

Confirm panelists to participate: find experts on the topic who will deepen the value for participants; ideally they are already familiar with Twitter

Use third party applications to help Tweeters follow the conversation:

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Another good blog post from Forrester’s Interactive Marketers Blog re “Tweetups”. This one is titled “Introducing #IMChat – A weekly Twitter jam about Interactive and Digital Marketing” and has an easy to scan listing of etiquette etc around this type of activity. http://community.forrester.com/message/13006#13006

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